2024-10-04
A group of Canadian doctors' travel to Haiti on a humanitarian mission. But their day on the job changes as the group finds itself in a violent protest, threatening their lives and keeping them from helping those in need. (Repeat).
Although modern medicine is capable of incredible feats, the ability to treat the human body follows hundreds of years of experimentation, at times with deadly results. When an epidemic of yellow fever strikes American soldiers in Cuba, Jesse Lazear journeys to the front. In a race against time, he puts himself in harm's way to uncover the source of the epidemic and prevent its spread. (Repeat).
The most destructive earthquake in Tokyo's history and the strongest one in history are apart by 89 years. Down under in Australia, we track the isolated northern outpost of Darwin to understand how they learned from cyclones that devastated their town in 1897 and again in 2011. (Repeat).
Human kind has always looked to the heavens to dream of the universe beyond our world, today that dream is within reach. Scientists may have conquered our atmosphere decades ago, but modern desires to make space travel accessible for the masses means rethinking the way we design our rockets. (Repeat).
Six Horsa gliders dropped from the skies near Cabourg in a surprise attack to take Pegasus Bridge over the One River. (Repeat).
On this gripping episode of Mapping Disasters a team of experts break down some of the most significant natural and man-made disasters in history. From the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami to the Suez Canal blockage, California Wildfires of 2020, 1970 Yungay, Peru Avalanche, and the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima, the series highlights the science behind these events, the challenges faced by the survivors,
A look at the case of Crystal, an active young woman that suddenly started losing all her energy with symptoms piling up on top of each other. (Repeat).
The first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang rests in an underground kingdom, in a tomb so large the archaeological dig could last a century. Buried with 8,000 life-sized terracotta warriors and a moat of mercury to guard his body under a sky of pearls, what could justify such a show of funereal grandeur? We might think of Neanderthals as uncivilized, but we now know they too buried their dead. (Repe
Stone artifacts, burial grounds and temple ruins excavated on Pitcairn Island shed light on a previously unknown civilization. Deep in the jungle of Borneo, researchers discover a strange, glowing green light emitting in the pitch dark forest. The remains of a long lost temple are found decaying on the Greek island of Euboea. Coral rubble unearthed on Sudan's Suakin Island unveils the vibrant past
After years of fighting arm-in-arm with their British compatriots, American colonists are shocked by stern import duties enacted over the heads of the colonies. Designed to address the crippling national debt of a warring empire, the Sugar Act, Stamp Tax, and Townshend Act incite open rebellion. Though Britain reaffirms her right to tax the colonies, escalating boycotts and an iconic protest in Bo
Over centuries, researchers have come closer to understanding the true origins of humanity, but there are still fundamental questions up for debate. There is power in this debate and it becomes the fixation of a nefarious power as Heinrich Himmler, leader of the Nazi's SS, turns his attention to proving the Paleolithic past of Germany's Aryan race. (Repeat).
Far from the front lines, Nazi scientists were tasked with creating the perfect Aryan soldier for the Thousand Year Reich. From mundane questions of survival to creating a stronger and better fighter, the Nazis used science to study the human constitution and its limits. Propaganda indoctrinated the masses and the Hitler Youth trained children for later service. Experiments with methamphetamines,
The Freemasons have been meeting since the 14th century and its members have included the likes of Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling. From an ancient stoneworker's guild through to the modern era, their mythologies, beliefs, and secret rituals have inspired countless works of fiction and speculation. What happens behind the closed doors of thousands of Masonic lodges? (Repeat).
The mummified corpses found on an isolated Arctic island may answer a centuries-old mystery of an expedition consumed by the cannibalistic insanity of its mutinous crew. (Repeat).
The first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang rests in an underground kingdom, in a tomb so large the archaeological dig could last a century. Buried with 8,000 life-sized terracotta warriors and a moat of mercury to guard his body under a sky of pearls, what could justify such a show of funereal grandeur? We might think of Neanderthals as uncivilized, but we now know they too buried their dead. (Repe
Stone artifacts, burial grounds and temple ruins excavated on Pitcairn Island shed light on a previously unknown civilization. Deep in the jungle of Borneo, researchers discover a strange, glowing green light emitting in the pitch dark forest. The remains of a long lost temple are found decaying on the Greek island of Euboea. Coral rubble unearthed on Sudan's Suakin Island unveils the vibrant past
After years of fighting arm-in-arm with their British compatriots, American colonists are shocked by stern import duties enacted over the heads of the colonies. Designed to address the crippling national debt of a warring empire, the Sugar Act, Stamp Tax, and Townshend Act incite open rebellion. Though Britain reaffirms her right to tax the colonies, escalating boycotts and an iconic protest in Bo
Over centuries, researchers have come closer to understanding the true origins of humanity, but there are still fundamental questions up for debate. There is power in this debate and it becomes the fixation of a nefarious power as Heinrich Himmler, leader of the Nazi's SS, turns his attention to proving the Paleolithic past of Germany's Aryan race. (Repeat).
Far from the front lines, Nazi scientists were tasked with creating the perfect Aryan soldier for the Thousand Year Reich. From mundane questions of survival to creating a stronger and better fighter, the Nazis used science to study the human constitution and its limits. Propaganda indoctrinated the masses and the Hitler Youth trained children for later service. Experiments with methamphetamines,
The Freemasons have been meeting since the 14th century and its members have included the likes of Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling. From an ancient stoneworker's guild through to the modern era, their mythologies, beliefs, and secret rituals have inspired countless works of fiction and speculation. What happens behind the closed doors of thousands of Masonic lodges? (Repeat).
The mummified corpses found on an isolated Arctic island may answer a centuries-old mystery of an expedition consumed by the cannibalistic insanity of its mutinous crew. (Repeat).
The first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang rests in an underground kingdom, in a tomb so large the archaeological dig could last a century. Buried with 8,000 life-sized terracotta warriors and a moat of mercury to guard his body under a sky of pearls, what could justify such a show of funereal grandeur? We might think of Neanderthals as uncivilized, but we now know they too buried their dead. (Repe
Stone artifacts, burial grounds and temple ruins excavated on Pitcairn Island shed light on a previously unknown civilization. Deep in the jungle of Borneo, researchers discover a strange, glowing green light emitting in the pitch dark forest. The remains of a long lost temple are found decaying on the Greek island of Euboea. Coral rubble unearthed on Sudan's Suakin Island unveils the vibrant past
After years of fighting arm-in-arm with their British compatriots, American colonists are shocked by stern import duties enacted over the heads of the colonies. Designed to address the crippling national debt of a warring empire, the Sugar Act, Stamp Tax, and Townshend Act incite open rebellion. Though Britain reaffirms her right to tax the colonies, escalating boycotts and an iconic protest in Bo
Over centuries, researchers have come closer to understanding the true origins of humanity, but there are still fundamental questions up for debate. There is power in this debate and it becomes the fixation of a nefarious power as Heinrich Himmler, leader of the Nazi's SS, turns his attention to proving the Paleolithic past of Germany's Aryan race. (Repeat).
Far from the front lines, Nazi scientists were tasked with creating the perfect Aryan soldier for the Thousand Year Reich. From mundane questions of survival to creating a stronger and better fighter, the Nazis used science to study the human constitution and its limits. Propaganda indoctrinated the masses and the Hitler Youth trained children for later service. Experiments with methamphetamines,
The Freemasons have been meeting since the 14th century and its members have included the likes of Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling. From an ancient stoneworker's guild through to the modern era, their mythologies, beliefs, and secret rituals have inspired countless works of fiction and speculation. What happens behind the closed doors of thousands of Masonic lodges? (Repeat).
The mummified corpses found on an isolated Arctic island may answer a centuries-old mystery of an expedition consumed by the cannibalistic insanity of its mutinous crew. (Repeat).
The first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang rests in an underground kingdom, in a tomb so large the archaeological dig could last a century. Buried with 8,000 life-sized terracotta warriors and a moat of mercury to guard his body under a sky of pearls, what could justify such a show of funereal grandeur? We might think of Neanderthals as uncivilized, but we now know they too buried their dead. (Repe